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Steam locomotive, number 245

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Lumière Cinématographe

Cinematography

c. 1896

Steam locomotive, number 673

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Brake composite/observation saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Hank Winding Machine

Textile Industry

1897

Model of a drain pipe, London, England, 1896

Sewerage & Sanitation

1896

A T & T national telephone directory, October 1896

Telecommunications

1896

Bersey electric taxi cab

Road Transport

1897

Underwood Typewriter, 1897

Printing & Writing

1897

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1897

X-ray installation

X-rays

1896-1897

Model of an intercepting trap drain, London, England, 1896

Sewerage & Sanitation

1896

Lu-Min-Um Safety Bicycle

Road Transport

1896

Block instrument (lock and block)

Signalling & Telecommunications

1897

Carding engine

Textile Industry

1896

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1897

Section of cross-Channel telephone cable, 1897

Telecommunications

1897

Model of a channel pipe, London, England, 1896

Sewerage & Sanitation

1896

great western railway royal cigarette case

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1897

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

Photographic Technology

c 1897

22 volt ringing generator

Telecommunications

1896

stereoscopic viewer

Photographic Technology

c.1896

Illustrated Programme of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee Procession

Cinematography

June 1897

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Gramophone by HMV, 1897.

Sound Reproduction

1897

Brown & Sharpe automatic lathe

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1897

Karl Ferdinand Braun's 'Braun tube', 1897

Electronic Components

1897

Electromagnetic (e/m) cathode ray tube, by Sir Joseph John Thomson, Cambridge, England, 1896. Part of the J.J. Thomson's original e/m cathode ray tube apparatus, for measuring the velocity of the cathode rays and the ratio of the mass of the carriers to the charge carried by them.

J J Thomson's Electromagnetic Tube used in the Discovery of the Electron, about 1896

Nuclear Physics

1896

Short's 'Filoscope' Flip Book 'The Train'

Cinematography

1897

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Double focus X-ray tube

Radiomedicine

1896

Recording rain gauge by Negretti and Zambra

Meteorology

1897

Diamond Jubilee brick

Coal Mining

1897 c.

X-ray photography of a woman's hand, Manchester, England, 1896

Arthur Schuster

1896

Robert Paul's Cinematograph Camera No 2

Cinematography

1896

Frames from 'The Corbett Fitzsimmons Fight'

Cinematography

1897-03-17

Filoscope: David Devant The Mysterious Rabbit

Cinematography

c. 1896

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Model of an 8 element 'Belleville' marine steam boiler

Marine Engines

1896-1897

Jackson type X-ray tube, United Kingdom, 1896

Radiomedicine

1896

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Rectangular Vesta matchbox

Plastics and Modern Materials

1897

Edison phonograph cylinder duplicator, c 1897

Sound Reproduction

1897

Locomotive and tender, 4-8-0, 3' 6" gauge, wood burning, with 8-wheel double-bogie tender, built by Sharp Stewart in 1896 for the Cape Government Railway, later South African Railways. Locomotive number 390, later SAR 993, order number E1073 and T1073. Subsequently operated by Zambezi Sawmills Railway (also known as the Mulobezi Railway). Operated on the Mulobezi to Livingstone line. Length 51 4"; width 8'; height 12'.

Cape Government locomotive and tender 4-8-0, 1896

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1896

Shew's Xit Eclipse quarter plate camera, made by J F Shew & Co. London. Collapsing A form, wooden camera for RR lens, rotating aperture plate f/8,11,16,32. Rotary shutter T/I. Helical screw and lever focusing inf.- 1 1/2 yards. Shew removable , reflecting finder. No focusing screen. (M477)

Eclipse plate camera

Photographic Technology

1896

Dynamo in display case

Electricity Supply

1896

Maskelyne "Victoria" typewriter (series A no.8), 1

Printing & Writing

1897

Two photographs, (7"x5"), from a collection of 51 photograph

Photographs

1897

Tiled mural, North Staffordshire Railway, tiled mural depicting Bridge Inn at Hanley, NSR loop line train 1897, blue tiles with brown border.

Tiled mural, North Staffordshire Railway

Railway Infrastructure

1897

Main body of Lumiere Cinematographe, no. 271, 1896.

main body of Lumiere Cinematographe

Cinematography

1896